Biography of Earl J. Tuggle
Title
Biography of Earl J . Tuggle
Creator
Unknown
Subject- LOC
Veterans -- Illinois ; World War , 1914-1918 -- Biography ; United States . Army . ; World War , 1914-1918 -- Casualties
Subject [IDA]
Military World War I
Description
Short biography of Earl J . Tuggle , possibly written by his widow Ruby F . Tuggle . See also DeWitt County War Service record 6-4_WWI-6-2010-73_021
Contributing Institution
Vespasian Warner Public Library District
Date
ca. 1921
Type
text
Format
2 handwritten pages
Identifier
6-2_WWI-6-wrph-2010-111
Language
English
Transcript
[Handwritten Document : Page 1] Earl J . Tuggle , young farmer re-siding four miles northeast of Clinton was inducted into ser-vice June 21 , 1918 . He was sent to the Rhea Auto and Tractor School at North Kansas City , Missouri . After a short training at this school , on August 13 , 1918 he was transported to Camp Holabird , Maryland where he was put in the motor trans-port corp , his address being , company 6 , Water Tank Train #302 . About the middle of September 1918 he received his overseas equip-ment and was awaiting his overseas order when he was taken ill with the Spanish In-fluenza going to the Hospital on Sunday September 22 . He was later removed to United States General Hospital #2 at Ft . McHenry , Baltimore , Mary-land where he died of Influ-enza - Pnemonia on October [Handwritten Document : Page 2] 2 , 1918 . His funeral was held from the M.E . church in clinton on Sunday October 6 , 1918 and burial was in Woodlawn cemetery . His company left for overseas during his illness , arriving in France the day of his funeral . [Envelope : Printed return address , upper-left corner] War Records Committee of Dewitt County ___ V . WARNER PUBLIC LIBRARY CLINTON , ILLINOIS [Envelope : Handwritten note , center] Tuggle , Earl J . Clintonia
Coverage- Geographical
United States -- Illinois -- DeWitt County -- Clinton
Coverage-- Temporal
1910s (1910-1919) 1920s (1920-1929)
Rights
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Collection Name
DeWitt County World War I Collection
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